Final Witness Says Burge Put a Gun to His Head

Perjury trial expected to wrap this week

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John Burge walks out of federal court after jury selection in his perjury trial.

A convicted armed robber says a former Chicago police official removed all but one bullet from a gun, pointed it at him and fired three times.

Shadeed Mu'min testified Tuesday in the perjury and obstruction of justice trial of former Lt. Jon Burge.

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Mu'min says Burge was questioning him in 1985 when he took out the revolver and put it to his forehead. He says Burge also suffocated him with a typewriter cover three times until he lost consciousness.

Mu'min says after that, he agreed to sign a statement confessing to his participation in armed robbery and attempted murder.

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Burge has pleaded not guilty. He's accused of lying in a civil lawsuit when he denied seeing or participating in the torture of suspects.